The Beauty Home Sauna IG290: My Own Personal Sauna for Only $200

A few years ago my husband and I visited a spa in Wisconsin. It was both a wonderful and an educational experience. While at the spa, my husband and I were sure to visit the sauna one to two times a day. If you are not at all familiar with a sauna, it is simply a small/enclosed room with a heating system that produces either dry or wet heat. One sits in the steamy room for sessions of about 30-45 minutes. Some people follow the sauna with a cool bath which can be quite invigorating.

After returning home, my husband and I concluded that it would be wonderful to have a sauna in our home. Because we were planning a bathroom remodel, our first thought was to install a steam shower. A steam shower is the way most people go to get a sauna in their home. It is simply an enclosed shower room with a steam generator which gives one the option to take a standard shower or a steam shower. This is an idea situation, but because we own a very old home, installing a steam shower would have been quite expensive due to the need to update our electrical system to accommodate the steam generator. The second thought was to purchase a steam cabin, almost like a "pre-fab" steam shower, but again our old electrical system would not be able to handle that amount of power. During our bathroom remodel, we concluded that we really, really wanted a sauna in our home and checked around to see how it could possibly be done. We took a look at some of the infrared saunas which we thought we might be able to use in one of the small bedrooms. These too are pre-fabbed cabins, and this might have worked for us, but with the bathroom remodel, we were a little low on funds.